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Getting married anywhere in Australia is exciting. Brides have so much to choose from in this country regardless of where the wedding is being held. Queensland brides have a selection of amazing beach locations and tropical hideaways to find the perfect wedding venue. Getting married in Sydney or Melbourne? Then you are spent for choice for historical churches and luxury reception venues. Adelaide brides have beautiful parks and gardens and stunning cathedrals to choose from. Australia is also accessible to many islands for the perfect elopement of destination wedding. Let your imagination run wild as it is your wedding and should be exactly what you want. Using the Brides of Australia website you can quickly and easily search hundreds of wedding venues and wedding suppliers in minutes.

Wedding planning should be fun not stressful so leave the car in the garage and search Australia’s best wedding suppliers from your own home. Invite your bridesmaids to help you plan your wedding. If your bridesmaids are married you can get all kind of wedding ideas without spending hours of your own time. When planning your wedding it is important to remember wedding etiquette as you will have older members of you and your fiancé family attending your wedding and you want to ensure everything is perfect. Our wedding etiquette guide will ensure you have everything right from the seating to your wedding invitation wording.

Weddings Facts and Statistics in Australia

Did you know there are around 120,000 wedding in Australia each year? Surprisingly most of these are first marriages for both the bride and the groom. Approximately 75% or 90,000 weddings a year in Australia are first marriages. There are around 30,000 weddings a year where one or both parties have been married before. Many couples seem to be waiting to tie the knot with the average age of a bride in Australia is 28 and the average age of the groom is 30 years old.

It’s interesting to see how many wedding take place in Australia and where the wedding are distributed. Most wedding in Australia are held in Sydney and New South Wales, 38,000 or 32% of weddings over the 8 states and territories. The second largest state for weddings is Victoria and Melbourne coming in at approximately 28,000 or 24%. This is not surprising as these are the 2 most populated states in Australia. Brisbane and Queensland come in close with 26,500 or 22% of weddings each year. Next is Perth and Western Australia the largest state in the country with 12,000 or 10% of wedding each year. Adelaide and South Australia come in 5th place with 7,500 or 6.5% of Australia’s annual weddings. The island state Tasmania and its capital Hobart hold only 2,750 2.5% of weddings. Canberra holds 1,600 wedding per year and lastly the Northern Territory and Darwin only 700 weddings per year.

Who is performing all these wedding ceremonies? Currently the majority of Australian weddings are performed by a civil marriage celebrant. Celebrants perform around 65% or about 78,000 weddings each year. Religious ceremonies performed by a priest or minister account of the remaining 35% or 42,000 wedding per year.

You may also wonder how much does the average wedding cost. The average cost of a wedding in Australia is a whopping $25,000 dollars. That means Australians spend approximately $300,000,000 on weddings each year!

Then there is the question how long does it take to plan a wedding? In Australia brides, their friends and families spend over 200 hours planning the wedding day. That’s a total of 24,000,000 hours spent planning weddings in Australia every year. With modern technology these days more that 60% of brides use the internet to help them plan their wedding.